Allegra Kirkland

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Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said on Friday that he stood behind his Republican presidential rival, Ben Carson, despite the fact that the retired neurosurgeon falsely claimed to have been offered a "scholarship" to the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

On Friday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough pointed out that there is no religious grounding for Ben Carson’s theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built by the biblical patriarch Joseph for grain storage.

GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush suggested during a Thursday interview with MSNBC that his father might be trying to "create a different narrative" about his brother George W. Bush’s administration.

Republican voters said that Donald Trump and Ben Carson are the candidates best suited to take charge of the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday.

Amtrak sent a tweet Friday winking at a recent incident in which notorious loud-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) got booted from the train's quiet car on a New York-bound train for speaking too loudly.

Shortly after Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate came to an end, a CNBC spokesman tried to fend off early criticism of the network’s moderators, saying the candidates should have been prepared for “tough questions.”